Learning is Change

What I'm learning: Vyou – Conversational Video

I was looking for a service to do video-based discussions. I think this may work quite well. We shall see if it works itself into any of my workflows, though.

VYou:

“VYou allows people to broadcast video structured as conversations, offering the most personal form of social interaction on the web. It works like this: you record video responses to messages entered by friends and fans. VYou organizes their messages and your videos into conversations, making the experience feel continuously live even though the content is stored.

VYou lets you get advice from experts, interact with your favorite celebrity or organization, or communicate with friends and family using a social presence that persists even when you’re away. As a simple application it can be embedded and posted anywhere on the web giving you tremendous power and creative control.”

If you wanted to have a video threaded discussion using webcams, what would I use to do so (web apps would be ideal,…

 

If you wanted to have a video threaded discussion using webcams, what would I use to do so (web apps would be ideal, especially if I could embed the recorder/discussion into my website)?

http://tokbox.com has some interesting projects, but I don’t think that any of them work quite like a I want this to.

http://tokbox.com

A cool webinar opportunity for writers and teachers alike.

 

A cool webinar opportunity for writers and teachers alike.

Originally shared by Cheryl Rainfield

YA author Nora Olsen (The End: Five Queer Kids Save The World) will be doing a webinar: http://goldencrown.org/olsen-webinar/ called The Kids Are Alright: Lesbian and Bi Young Adult Novels on Saturday, October 1. A lot of readers don’t know that there are many YA novels with lesbian and bisexual main characters. Nora Olsen will take you through the history of lesbians in YA, from the “tragic” plots of the 1970′s to the diverse stories of today. Learn what are some of the iconic lesbian/bi YA classics and some of the best contemporary titles. Discover what these books mean to teenagers who are coming out. And find out what it takes to write a YA novel yourself. Nora will tell you about the market for YA, which is one of the few sectors in publishing that is currently growing, and give information on both LGBT-specific and mainstream publishers.

Interested? Register: http://goldencrown.org/olsen-webinar/

http://goldencrown.org/olsen-webinar/

I’m in the mood to learn from some new folks today.

 

I’m in the mood to learn from some new folks today.

Now that search works, if anyone is searching for the following terms and are so inclined, leave a comment and I would love to add you to a circle.

#edtech

#ux

#ui

#elearning

#LMS

#storytelling

#startups

#bizdev

#googledocs

#gender

#equality

About – Do Lectures

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Kinda like Tedx or Ignite, but more oriented around action and getting things done to change the world. Nice.

About – Do Lectures:

” The idea is a simple one— that people who Do things can inspire the rest of us to go and Do things, too. So each year we invite a set of people down here to come and tell us what they Do. They can be small Do’s or big Do’s or just extraordinary Do’s. But when you listen to their stories, they light a fire in your belly to go and Do your thing, your passion, the thing that sits in the back of your head each day, just waiting, and waiting for you to follow your heart.

To go find your cause to fight, your company to start, your invention to invent, your book to write, your mountain to climb. The one thing the Doers of the world Do, apart from Do amazing things, is to inspire the rest of us to go and Do amazing things too. They are fire-starters.”